Kitchen Progress

We are in house-project mode.  The great room saw a slight makeover because remember how it used to be home to the bowling alley and had burgundy and mustard walls?  

No more of that, my friends.  After much deliberating and weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, we finally picked our paint colors.  We went with a color called Ivory Lace for the living room side and Almost Aqua for the kitchen/dining side.

Here's one tentative before/after of the dining area so you can see the paint change:

We're still working on painting trim a brighter white, we took down that awkward television that was hanging over the table, and we're also refinishing our table and chairs! In other words, we'll be eating on the floor for the next 5 months.  We got a good start on the table today though.

We started with this:

It's your typical light-wood table, but don't let this picture fool you, this table was not in good shape.  At all.  There were scratches and the finish was totally wearing off all over the place.  That's what you get when you spend $25 on KSL.

So we sanded.

And applied a wood conditioner.

And stained with a red mahogany stain!

And we ended up with this (although we're doing another coat in a few hours so it will be a little darker and a little redder):

What a change!  The plan is to paint everything except the top (which is now stained) white, so we're going for the farmhouse table look, which I first saw here.  It is a lot of work, but we had a fun day working on this together.  Now I need about 6 otter pops and a back massage.